Sustained wind speed of storm Beryl in 2024
Sustained wind speed of storm Helene in 2024
Sustained wind speed of storm Melissa in 2025
Sustained wind speed of storm Milton in 2024
Made some creatures using IBTrACS tropical cyclone wind data
Intense days, we’ve published many Moon pieces—including this one today in video format—for which I 3D-printed a model of the Moon exactly the size that astronauts see it from Orion. According to NASA, it looks like a basketball if you hold it at arm's length. tinyurl.com/bs8ytpap
🌖 Artemis II will send four astronauts farther than any human has ever gone. Here’s what you need to know about their mission: tinyurl.com/bdeyx8n9 🎁
A map of the snowpack across the western United States compared to average snowpack for this time of the year. In nearly all, large swaths of the mountain ranges have less than a third of the normal snowpack for the year. Nearly all of the Colorado River Basin has below-average snow. Snowpack is below average in every western state except for parts of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Washington.
Record heat is colliding with a snow drought across the Western United States, where snowpack accounts for much of the water supply
🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... w/ @byscottdance.com & @sachimulkey.bsky.social
Blackouts are getting worse in Cuba. On some days, the entire island is plunged into near total darkness. The electricity crisis has laid bare the risks of depending so heavily on foreign oil while trying to maintain a centrally planned socialist economic system.
Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com
Come help us explain the news!
We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations.
Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
I've just added three KH-7 images of the Matochkin Shar Nuclear Test Site to the declassified imagery gallery. These shots are gorgeous. There's something about film and snowy landscapes.
October 4, 1965: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
May 26, 1967: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
cont.
Trump's View Of the World
Even on a global scale, the president's attitudes reflect a fixation on a single subject: himself.
GIFT LINK 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I recently nerd-sniped myself into thinking about political points of view on maps, and wondering whether it’d be possible to create OpenStreetMap-derived, Wikipedia-informed national borders on a Protomaps base map legal for educational use in countries in conflict.
medium.com/@michalmigur...
At 3D map of Denali with a route from the glacier up to the summit pictured in orange.
Starting to look alright. Added line rendering, pictured here
Jack Kuenzle's FKT route (www.strava.com/activities/9...)
My thoughts are with the +300 colleagues who were laid off today. This is not good for the industry www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif...
- Fast, with a Rust core
- Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding
- Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile
- Remote data support with Obstore
- No GDAL dependency
The last few weeks I've seen a lot of great job opportunities shared, listing a few that stood out to me in the mapping/cartography/visual journalism space:
www.linkedin.com/posts/lauren...
Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data.
visualisingclimate.org
#VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
Playing with elevation data in #Blender. This is the #Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) boundary which includes all of the watersheds that converge in Toronto. Going to try draping some orthophotos and land cover data over this. Other ideas?
#Maps #Mapping #GIS #3D #dataviz
So smooth!
Added some contour lines
willymaps.github.io/experiments/...
A map of California with a shaded relief layer and drop shadow.
Building drop shadows with #turfjs
willymaps.github.io/experiments/...
A map of the globe that shows the southern hemisphere, including New Zealand on the top left and Antarctica in the bottom center. The map shows the path of a ship that will travel from New Zealand to the West Antarctic and back between December 2025 and February 2026.
No time like a holiday deadline to learn MapLibre and how to run a cron job for the first time 🙃 (with a big assist from
@willbdavis.bsky.social )
Follow along our “slow blog” as Ray and Chang join a team of scientists traveling to Antarctica:
🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/cl...
The basemap for the top map in this story is built off of this experiment I shared earlier in the year with @maplibre.org and the shaded relief archive: willymaps.github.io/shadedrelief/
Will You Have a White Christmas This Year? 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Bringing back the bugle mountains with this work in progress.
Map of NYC surface parking lots
Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential.
Link at the end.
#NYC #Planning #Dataviz #mapping #maps #map #housing
Map of 24-hour snowfall accumulation around Lake Michigan.
Tracking snowfall around Lake Michigan overnight and into today w/ @nazaneentv.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Maps showing freezing temperatures across the contiguous United States between Sunday Nov. 9 and Friday Nov. 14, 2025.
Chart showing the actual and "feels like" temperature for Chicago between Saturday Nov. 8 and Friday Nov. 14, 2025.
@nytweather.bsky.social relaunched a freezing temperature tracker for this season. Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
